Reviews for Patagonia: El �ltimo conf�n de la naturaleza

The average rating for Patagonia: El �ltimo conf�n de la naturaleza based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-05 00:00:00 Jack Brown I wish that I liked this one as much as some of the best of the sailing genre. Thorpe is a journalist and kept the story moving along. He just doesn't have much sailing background and it was a pretty uneventful trip, so he focused most of his story on the inexperienced crew. Unfortunitely, his constant pettiness, fear and cluelessness and the ineptness of the crew just wore me out by the end. This was the story of "captain" Phil Buck's plan to move a commissioned reed boat from Lake Titicaca, finish it in coastal Chile, and then sail it to Easter Island. Thorpe is a journalist looking for a story when he meets one of the crew on a bus. The eight men who finally end up sailing were just plain lucky that no harm came to them. No one on board had skill with electronics and little skill with navigation or medicine or well, sailing. Everything was just done- no planning or expertise required. The book reminded me, of course, of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki (which was the inspiration for the trip) and also of The Incredible Journey by Tristen Jones and actually a lot of The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst because of the lack of preparedness. It was the writing that led me to give this 3 stars. The self-congratulatory crew was annoying, but the boatbuilding segment and the boat's arrival in Rapa Nui kept me reading.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-12-27 00:00:00 Chad Martin [The fact that no one noticed they'd installed the sails upside down was a prime moment for a face-palm, and they didn't even bother to figure out how to log in to the navigation equipment, test their battery system or attempt a man-overboard rescue before they were well underway. (hide spoiler)]